Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. The Levels School is the nearest published school at 547 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TA7 9QX
King Alfred · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- King Alfred
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills
- Postcode district
- TA7
- Postcode sector
- TA7 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TA7 9QX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- TA
- Postcode district
- TA7
- Postcode sector
- TA7 9
- Latitude
- 51.130327
- Longitude
- -2.821399
- British National Grid easting
- 342,620
- British National Grid northing
- 137,105
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- King Alfred · E05014367
- Parish or community
- E04008602
- Westminster constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills · E14001572
- Output area
- E00148371
- Lower layer super output area
- Sedgemoor 012A · E01029130
- Middle layer super output area
- Sedgemoor 012 · E02006072
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore TA7
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 547 m
The Levels School
Other independent special school
- 810 m
Ashcott Primary School
Community school
- 1.6 km
Dovecote School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 66
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 34
- Other theft 8
- Vehicle crime 6
- Public order 5
- Anti social behaviour 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- TA7 9 residents
- 4,026
Age bands in TA7 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 14.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 32.6%
452 residents
342 residents
596 residents
1,312 residents
1,306 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
POLDEN MEDICAL PRACTICE
QUARRY GROUND, EDINGTON, BRIDGWATER, TA7 9HA
ODS code L85024
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Old Nursery Drive Ashcott
BCT · Ashcott
- 0.1 miles
Old Nursery Drive Ashcott
BCT · Ashcott
- 0.2 miles
The Albion Inn
BCT · Pedwell
- 0.2 miles
The Albion Inn
BCT · Pedwell
- 0.2 miles
The Albion Inn
BCT · Pedwell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sedgemoor 012A, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,770 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
66 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 34 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.